Ölschiefer
German, noun[ˈøːlˌʃiːfɐ]
Ölschiefer is spelled Ö-L-S-C-H-I-E-F-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written German, the 195,050th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ölschiefer is a German masculine noun meaning “oil shale” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “dunkelgraues bis schwarzes Sedimentgestein, aus denen Öl und Gas gewonnen werden kann”.
What does Ölschiefer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineoil shale
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. dunkelgraues bis schwarzes Sedimentgestein, aus denen Öl und Gas gewonnen werden kann
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Ölschiefer
- Ölschiefers genitive
- Ölschiefern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Ölschiefer?
- [ˈøːlˌʃiːfɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Ölschiefer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Ölschiefer in German?
Ölschiefer appears about once in every 13 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).